A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

The hardest - the part that's hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next one and the next one." -Varnado Simpson, Charlie Company of My Lai

The first step away from being manipulated, and towards a more autonomous outlook, is to stand back from a set of responses and think.

A woman who was a schoolgirl at Hiroshima asked, “Those scientists who invented the atomic bomb, what did they think would happen if they dropped it?

The genocide [in Rwanda] was not a spontaneous eruption of tribal hatred, it was planned by people wanting to keep power. There was a long government-led hat campaign against the Tutsis.

A central part of the torturer’s craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity.

The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.

Never keep your brain so full that people’s opinions take up every pew in your mind, and truth has to be “born again” before it is believed.

I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off or make people think or rattle the cage somehow.

I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.

Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again!

Go to the club or go to the block or go hang out and things start coming.

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.

When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.